Improvement in machines for counting coins



M F. BONZANO.

- Counting Machine. 1

No. 15,117. Patented June 17, 1856.

UNITED STATES PAT NT OFFICE.

M. F. BONZANO, OF NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA.

IMPROVEMENT lN MACHINES FOR COUNTING COINS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 15,117, dated June 17, 1856.

To ctZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, M. F. BONZANO, of the city of New Orleans, in the parish of Orleans, State of Louisiana, have invented a new and useful Machine for Counting Coined Money or Coins; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the construction and operation of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making part of this specification, in which-- Number 1 is aplan No. 2, a sectional drawing along the lines A B B O of No. 1, and No. 3 a perspective drawing.

Upon a board 20 is fastened, by means of screws, the cylindrical cast-iron basin g, into which the coins to be counted are thrown promiscuously. The toothed wheel h, fastened upon the spindle a, is turned by means of the handle itoward the left. By this movement the coins lying at the bottom of the basin are seized by the toothed wheel h and propelled toward the slot d, which is just large enough in every direction to admit the coins, and can be adjusted for coins not differing very much in size by sliding the plate is toward the right to diminish the opening, or in the contrary direction to enlarge it. The pieces on arriving at the slot d are prevented from going past it by the projecting end of the slide k, and are thus compelled to enter it, one piece pushing the other along until arrived at the toothed wheel h and imparting to the said wheel a motion upon its axis corresponding to one tooth for each and every piece that falls through the opening Z into the box or other convenient receptacle. The

pieces to be counted are thus made to act in the same manner as a pinion. The number of teeth in the wheels 6 are in such proportion to their respective pinions as to elfeet the decimal system of numeration, so that the figures pointed to by the hands need simply be inspected to read off the number of pieces passed into the box below.

To avoid moving the hands it is only necessary to mark down the state of the index, add thereto the number of pieces to be counted, and turn the handle until the hands have arrived at their proper figures.

The machine should be inclined toward the operator at an angle of about twenty degrees, a position easily maintained by placing an ordinary coin-box upon a board inclined to that angle and placing the machine over the box. The pieces should be thrown into the basin in such quantities that the bottom be covered;

but they should never be more than about three-fourths of an inch in depth. 4

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The manner of passing the pieces in regular order through a slot by means of a toothed wheel for the purpose of making them aid as a pinion to revolve a wheel connected by other wheels with a registering-index.

M. F. BONZANO. Witnesses:

M. G. KENNEDY, OSCAR ISNARD. 

